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Wednesday, 2 November 2016

FG approves establisment of eight new universities

The Federal government has approved the establishment of eight new universities. Minister of State for Education, Anthony Onwuka, announced this today to state house corespondents after the Federal Executive Council meeting.

According to Onwuka, the newly approved universities include Anchor University Ayobo, Lagos; Arthur Jarvis Akpabuyo University Calabar, Cross River; Clifford University Owerinta, Abia;

Coal City University, Enugu; Crown Hill University Kwara; Dominican University Ibadan, Oyo; Kola Daisy University, Ibadan; and Legacy University, Okija, Anambra State. He said all the new universities were given three years provisional license and they are to be mentored by older universityies.

According to Onwuka, Anchor University will be mentored by the University of Lagos, Jarvis University by the University of Calabar, Clifford University by the University of Agriculture, Umudike, Coal city University by the University of Nigeria Nsukka; Legacy University by Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Crown Hill University by the University of Ilorin; while the two new universities in Oyo State, Kola Daisy and Dominican universities, will be mentored by the University of Ibadan.

25 comments:

We should be upgrading the universities we already have rather than create new one...well at this point in time, I would think. Our higher institutions are way far from what they ought to be in every ramification, so why waste more money on new ones when existing ones are largely, eye sores?

please note that all these institutions are private owned and this administration shouldn't be credited for creating universities.. as i'm quite certain, one way or the other, they'd want to claim they built schools when campaigns for the next elections start.

This man Buhari is completely mal-administrator.Instead managing those Universities at hand and then establish more sector to create jobs,u were still creating more universities that will give room for more un-employment.

This man Buhari is completely mal-administrator.Instead managing those Universities at hand and then establish more sector to create jobs,u were still creating more universities that will give room for more un-employment.

Kai Nigerians like to talk than to read,from the above write did buhari say he crest new universities?he only said those university mention above has stimulated the time of approval which is two years n that is what he has just done.kai na was oo receive sense in Jesus name

This Adamu of a president is busying approving more Universities instead of improving the standard of the tertiary institutions we have in Nigeria and also creating jobs, if he likes he should approve a number of universities that out numbers the Nigerian population if there are no jobs for graduates then he is only wasting precious time. In the last 3-5 years, no Nigerian university has been reckoned in Africa talk more of the world...Its been Universities in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania etc. Guess he thinks passing thru the walls of a university is about rearing cattle abi him think say na beans? Arrant Nonsense!

@Vitor Chinoo and some others. These new licensed universities are private owned, some by christian bodies and you will agree with me that in present day Nigeria , some private universities are better as compared to Govt owned so it is a good development that they are given licenses to operate for three years and to be mentored by long existing universities for standards.